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PubMed1976

[Constancy of color perception in the gray toad (Bufo bufo L.): role of the surrounding background in recognition of stimulus color].

The paper continues the previous study (1) on some aspects of toad colour vision. It deals with signs which allow the visual system of toad to recognize blue stimuli. The behavioural experiments were performed during the breeding season when males exhibited the clasping of stationary blue stimuli. It is shown that in spite of some variety of spectral compositions of light sources males clasp only blue stimuli on white surrounding background. Under fixed illumination on white background males clasp blue stimuli, while on red and/or yellow background they clasp grey stimuli as well. These responses appear explicable if it is assumed that the surrounding background is the main sign of a spectral composition of illumination with "the simultaneous colour contrast" being a part of the constant colour perception mechanism (2).

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PubMed1987

Categorical color perception of Japanese observers: comparison with that of Americans.

Ten native Japanese observers named 424 colors of the OSA Uniform Color Scales set using monolexemic color terms of their choice. The results are compared with those from seven American subjects previously studied by Boynton and Olson. It is concluded, in full agreement with the original thesis of Berlin and Kay, that there are eleven basic color terms in each language, each of which describes a fundamental color sensation dependent upon an underlying physiology that does not differ between the two groups.

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PubMed1985

Color perception with binocularly fused adapting fields of different wavelengths.

By presenting to one eye a small test superimposed on a background field, and to the other eye only a similar background field of a different wavelength (arranged so that the fused percept is the test centered upon a single fused background), the color appearance of the perceived background can be changed while keeping constant the light stimulating the test eye. Measurements demonstrate that the contralateral field clearly influences the color of the test, even when the left- and right-eye backgrounds are very different in wavelength and illuminance. This change in color appearance cannot be explained (a) by simple contribution of a color signal from the contralateral eye, (b) by the perceived color of the fused background, or (c) by combining the effects of contralateral adaptation (alone) and monocular adaptation (alone). Instead, the central-mechanism response depends on the particular pair of wavelengths that are fused. The results suggest chromatic coding of neural signals arriving at the central locus.

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PubMed1988

[Disorders of color perception in subtoxic and toxic digoxin and serum digoxin concentrations].

Using the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test, investigations were carried out in 14 patients with subtoxic to toxic serum concentrations of digoxin (greater than 2.0 ng/ml) and 13 patients with subtoxic to toxic serum concentrations of digitoxin (greater than 30 ng/ml), in order to detect color vision deficiencies related to serum levels of digitalis. As compared to the control group (n = 24) the total error scores were significantly increased for both glycosides and all serum level ranges. No evidence was found indicating that digoxin and digitoxin influence color vision differently. The FM 100-hue test indicated definite improvements in the digoxin group within one day of discontinuing the glycosides, while the digitoxin group only started to normalize a week later. The results are discussed, taking the different pharmacokinetics of the two digitalis glycosides into account.

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PubMed1992

Color perception within a chromatic context: changes in red/green equilibria caused by noncontiguous light.

We measured changes in the color appearance of one light caused by another light presented in a well-separated region. Observers viewed a 1 degrees test field superimposed on a 3 degrees, 540 or 660 nm adapting field (32 or 320 td). The change in appearance due to noncontiguous light was determined by surrounding the 3 degrees adapting field with a continguous 3 degrees i.d., 5 degrees o.d. ring of either 32 or 320 td. The ring was 540, 660 nm or achromatic (tungsten-halogen "white"). The test was an admixture of 549 and 660 nm light, and varied from 6 to 1000 td. The observer adjusted the ratio of 549 to 660 nm test light so the test appeared neither reddish nor greenish. A 540 or 660 nm ring had a chromatic inducing effect on the small test that mimicked a simple surround contiguous with the test. Results with an achromatic ring were more complex: an isolated achromatic ring (no adapting field present) had virtually no effect on the color appearance of the test, but the same achromatic ring surrounding a chromatic adapting field shifted the test toward the color appearance of the adapting light (e.g. introducing a "white" ring surrounding a "green" adapting field shifted the test toward greenness). A thin pencil-width band of "white" light superimposed on a larger 5 degrees adapting field had an effect similar to a "white" 3-5 degrees ring. These results demonstrate (1) strong effects of the remote noncontiguous lights and (2) that the change in color appearance they cause is not a simple function of only the light in the noncontinguous region. The change depends on other lights in view. The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.

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PubMed1988

Color perception under chromatic adaptation: red/green equilibria with adapted short-wavelength-sensitive cones.

Chromatic adaptation can dramatically alter the color appearance of a light. The specific effect of adapting short-wavelength-sensitive (SWS) cones is examined by using two adapting wavelengths that lie on a tritanopic confusion line. The change in color appearance caused by signals from adapted SWS cones is isolated by restricting the wavelengths of the test light to 550 nm or longer. Thus the test negligibly stimulates SWS cones, so their sensitivity does not affect the test's appearance. The results show that adapted SWS cones contribute redness to the appearance of a superimposed test light, while not affecting sensitivity of MWS and LWS cones. Quantitatively, the redness from SWS cones illuminated by a large adapting field approaches physical admixture of test and adapting lights. This is very different from an adapting field that stimulates only MWS and LWS cones which, due to a postreceptoral process, contributes much less redness to a small superimposed test than expected from admixture. The difference between the adapted SWS-cone and the adapted MWS/LWS-cone contributions to the color of a small test explains a surprising result: a bluish-green (491 nm) adapting field contributes redness to a superimposed test light.

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PubMed1990

[Early diagnosis of congenital disorders of color vision with the Velhagen "Pflügerhaken Color Charts for evaluating color perception" in 3,375 preschool children].

In three series of examinations, 3375 male preschool-age children and 93 adult normal trichromates were tested using the Velhagen Pflügerhaken charts. The authors recommend modifying the evaluation of the results slightly by introducing a "doubteful" category for children who make one mistake or who show hesitation and lack of assurance in interpreting the charts. Using this modified form of assessment, diagnoses of "probably achromatopic" and "doubtful" were made in 7.16% and 2.13% respectively of 1689 preschool-age boys. The failure rate during the test and the duration of the examination were age-dependent, and declined with increasing age from 4.15% to 0.45% and from 1.18 min to 0.59 min, respectively. Most mistakes were made with charts nos. 9, 3, and 5. The results of tests with Pflügerhaken charts are fully comparable with those of other internationally used tests for adults. They can be recommended for screening preschool-age children.

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PubMed1988

[The effect of combined iodine treatment in Bad Hall on the color perception of patients].

After taking a cure with iodine treatments in Bad Hall (Upper Austria), patients with eye diseases repeatedly report improvements in their color vision. They state that colors are once again "more saturated, richer, and more distinct." These statements were checked using the Farnsworth Panel D-15 dicotomous test and the Lanthony desaturated 15 Hue test. The analysis of the results showed that there is indeed a statistically significant improvement in color vision after the cure. The spontaneous observations of the patients were therefore confirmed by the study.

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